Manuscript papers and fragments, Written in the 17th-19th century
File
MS. Savile 101
Held at the Weston Library
Manuscript papers and fragments, lately bound: among them are:
- Notes of arrangements about the use of the Schools (2nd half of the 17th cent.: fol. 1)
- Lists of Savile volumes, etc. (fols. 3, 11, 17-22, 26, 70)
- Receipt by George Edwards for money for engraving 315 diagrams of Euclid, June 10, 1675 (fol. 10)
- List of dr. John Wallis's books given by his son to the Savilian library in about A.D. 1705 (fol. 11)
- Proposals by Leonard Lichfield for a new edition of Oughtred's Clavis Mathematica, 1692 (fol. 14, cf. 15)
- A scribbled 18th cent. leaf bearing Matth. i. 18-21, etc. in Syriac (fol. 23)
- A treatise on Arithmetical Series of about A.D. 1840 (fol. 33)
Additions: fols. 71-94 notes in Latin on some geometrical work, written late in the 17th cent.: found loose in the Savile collection, Oct. 1913.
Dates
- Creation: Written in the 17th-19th century
Extent
72 Leaves
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Savile 101
Other Finding Aids
Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. V, no. 26169
Physical Facet
On paper
Dimensions
13 5/8 × 8 7/8 in.
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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